Improvement in hand-stamps



UNITED STATES PATENT Genion.

HORACE I-IOLT AND WILLIAM W. SECOMBE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASKYNORS TO SECOMBE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

llVlPROVEMENT IN HAND-STAMPS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. Il lill ,8214, dated February 14, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known' that we, HORACE I-IOLT and WILLIAM W. Snooirnn, of the city, county, and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand Printing and Dating Stamps, ot' which the following is a specification:

In the drawing, Figure l represents a partial sectional and front elevation ot a handstainp embracing our invention. Fig. 2 represcnts a side elevation of the saine. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of the stamphead.,'..the spindle being shown as withdrawn, so as to -disconnect it from the front disk, but maintaining its connection with the interinediate disk; and Fig. 4, a similar section, showing the three disks locked together and to the stamp-head.

From the base A of the stamp an arm, B, rises, the end of which forms a socket or guide, C, for the shank or stein D, which carries the stamp-head. The shank or stem D is made tubular, to receive a coiled spring, E, which rests upon a horizontal pin, a., so that the descent of the stamp-head will compress the spring, and the latter will thereby elevate the former when released. This pin a works in a longitudinal slot, b, in the tubular shank or stein D, and thereby allows of the rising-and- .i'alling motion of the stamp-head. The shank or stem also has a limited capacity to turn oi' swivel in its socket in order to change the position of the stamp-head from the front to the side of the stamp 5 and, in this connection, the ends of the pin a extend into and through horizontal segmental slots c, formed in the guide or socket C, so that their ends form stops to limit the turning or swiveling nievenient of the stampliead over an are of ninety degrees, to operate either from the front or side of the base. The ends of these slots c are provided with depressions d, Fig. 2, into which the pin a drops, and is held therein by the action of the spring E, so as to lock the stamp-head in either extreme of its swiveling movement.

The printing and d ating disks are arranged between the i'orked end ol' the shank or stein l) upon a horizontal spindle, F, so that the two outside ones, a' and y, can be turned independently of each other and the spindle, while the intermediate one, z, can onli,r turn with said spindle, being locked therewith by a pin, c, Figs. 3 and 4, fitting a groove, i, in 'the hub u of said disk z, so as to allow the` spindle F to have an axial movement indeigiendeut etb al l the disks, but maintain its connection with the intermediate one, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing. The two outside disks, .fr and y, are locked, when adjusted to the shank or stein, by spring-pins f and g -fiiii-eriug one of a series of holes in said disks correspondving to the months and years thereon. The i'ront disk, a', has its bearing upon the hub u ot the intermediate one, and has a recess iii its outer face to receive a thin disk, l, 'titled upon and locked with the hub. This iliin disk I. is of less diameter than the front one, and is provided with holes a, into any one ot' which a spring-pin, m, carried by an arni, s, on the spindle, enters to lock the intermediate disk to the stamp-head, and thereby hold it from turning out of adjustment while ai'ljusting or changing the position of the indicating dates or months of the outer disks, and ilius the intermediate disk may be held last while adjusting the others by applying the fingers to their outer faces; or it maybe adjusted by the spindle or steniwhile the otliaixi are held fast by their spring-pins, and in tli is nay avoid the inconvenience of having to adiust the middle disk, z, by applying the iin gers or any instrument to its circumference.

The arm s, which carries the spring-piu in of the middle disk, is itted upon the spindle F, so that the latter can turn independently of said arm s, while the latter, wil-li. its pin m, must move in and out with said spiin'lle, which, when drawn out and released, is ieri-acted by a spring, iv, at its inner end.

The hiking-ribbon is secured to i e stampliead, inelosed, and operated in il:e usual or any convenient manner.

A rubber or other bearin g, q, is ,fitted upon the shank or stein D, between the stamp-head and the lower end ot' the guide-socket C, to relieve the rebound ol' lthe spring.

A iianged. elastic shoe or bandV may be sprung over and iittedto the base "or ilie pur pose el' deadening the jar, and ol' relieving the liability ot the stamp to jump or inove` about under the blows in ope atiiur the sta-nip,

and also to protect the desk or article-of furniture from injury.y

Elwin described our invention, we claim- 1. The intermediate disk, locked and unlocked by n. device connected to orcztrried by the stein er spindle by which seid disk is opereted.

2. rlhe emnbinetion of the locking and nnlocking device s m of the intermedintedisk or type-wheel with zt stem or spindle, F, having zin exinl and revolving' motion, and with the stamp-head, ns herein described endset forth.

3. rlhe segmental slot or slots cin th'i'socket or guide O of a. hand-stamp, in combination with 'the pin a., for limitingv the turning or swiveling' movement ofthe stump-head, its described.

4. The depressions d et the ends of the slot or slots c, to forni seats for the pin to hold it and the stamp-head in either of the .extreme positions in which the letter may be adjusted, as described.

5. The combination of the segmental slot or slots o, pin a, spring E, tubular shank D, and socket orl guide C, constructed `and operating substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands.

, HORACE HOLT.

WV. W. SECOMBE.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, T. B. BEECHER. 

